A Story from OZ

2000-03-31 Thread Harrison Owen
The OSI-OZ Newsletter came out recently (and the wizard in this case is Brian Bainbridge) with the following story. I hope they won't mind me passing it along here. *** NigelRawlins I ran a half day workshop with blue collar metal

Re: A Story from OZ

2000-03-31 Thread Keith, Jaymee
dspring.com] > Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 4:22 AM > To: osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu > Subject: A Story from OZ > > The OSI-OZ Newsletter came out recently (and the wizard in this case is > Brian Bainbridge) with the following story. I hope they won'

Re: A Story from OZ

2000-04-03 Thread Nigel Rawlins
Hello Harrison, I was quite taken aback having been noticed, Re: A Story from OZ. Brian Bainbridge emailed me about you quoting my piece. It was a strange case and I must admit I was worried that the guys involved might not even be able to read. The story was quite interesting because I was

Re: A Story from OZ

2000-04-02 Thread rnorris
ir contemporaries. Thanks for listening Rich Norris At 06:34 AM 4/3/00 +1000, you wrote: >Hello Harrison, > >I was quite taken aback having been noticed, Re: A Story from OZ. >Brian Bainbridge emailed me about you quoting my piece. It was a >strange case and I must admit I was worried t

Re: A Story from OZ

2000-04-03 Thread Harrison Owen
At 06:43 PM 4/2/00 -0400, you wrote: >My Assumption: CEO's get paid to Open Space in their organizations to >capitilizes on the above to meet their organizations goals. An OS >facilitator is in essence doing the CEO's function in this regard. > >If this is a correct assumption then the Fair Market

Re: A Story from OZ

2000-04-03 Thread rnorris
At 03:00 PM 4/3/00 -0400, you wrote: This is great -- but for me the math would be harder then the Open Space. ** Harrison, I agree, the math might be a real challenge. I personally warm up to the notion of letting the customer

Re: A Story from OZ

2000-04-13 Thread rnorris
This is great -- but for me >the math would be harder then the Open Space. But there was a time when I >did an Open Space for a $300 million company -- small but quite well known. >The CFO was furious. We basically closed the company for two whole days. He >figured it cost him a Million a day. Anyh

Re: A Story from OZ

2000-04-14 Thread Denis Hitchens
>over time from immediate value to post OS event value. This matches the >basic concepts of "dissipative systems". My thought is that Open Space >could be used as a "snap shot" of the real culture systems in an Rich, my understanding of dissipative in the context of ffednoldcas-os is the "suckin

Re: A Story from OZ

2000-04-13 Thread Birgitt Williams
tact us for consulting services, training, conference and meeting facilitation, and keynote speaking. www.openspacetechnology.com <http://www.openspacetechnology.com> -Original Message- From: OSLIST [mailto:osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu]On Behalf Of rnor...@digital.net Sent: Thursd

typo in my Re: A Story from OZ

2000-04-14 Thread Denis Hitchens
>>over time from immediate value to post OS event value. This matches the >>basic concepts of "dissipative systems". My thought is that Open Space >>could be used as a "snap shot" of the real culture systems in an > >Rich, > >my understanding of dissipative in the context of ffednoldcas-os is the

Re: typo in my Re: A Story from OZ

2000-04-13 Thread Chris Corrigan
I think that is the embodiment of dissipative structures: order arising from chaos I didn't have a clue what that acronym was -- now i know, and my life is more organized for it! CJC Denis Hitchens wrote: > >>over time from immediate value to post OS event value. This matches the > >>basic